# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
| REFERENCE | MONEY, MEASUREMENTS, ETC. |
| King James Version | bath - [Isaiah 5:10] Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah. (This is a unit of liquid measure amounting to about 9 gallons) |
| King James Version | bekah - [Exodus 38:26] A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. (Half a shekel. Its usage in the KJV varies, but was about 1/5 ounce.) |
| King James Version | cab - [II Kings 6:25] And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver. (a dry measure of about 2 quarts or 1/18 of an ephah) |
| King James Version | cor - [Ezekiel 45:14] Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: (cor - a unit of measure. Various values have been supplied, including 45 and 87 gallons.) |
| King James Version | cubit - [Genesis 6:16] A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. (Generally assumed to be about 18 inches) |
| King James Version | deal - [Numbers 15:4] Then shall he that offereth his offering unto the LORD bring a meat offering of a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of oil. (The tenth part of a deal was a tenth part of an ephah or an omer, probably less than 0.5 gallons.) |
| King James Version | ephah - [Leviticus 5:11] But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering. (Equal to a bath for liquids or about 9 gallons, and in dry measure, it may have been about 3/5 bushel.) |
| King James Version | farthing - [Matthew 5:26] Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing . (about 3/8 of a cent) |
| King James Version | gerah - [Exodus 30:13] This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs :) an half shekel shall be the offering of the LORD. (A very small weight, probably about 16 barley grains.) |
| King James Version | handbreadth - [Exodus 37:12] Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about. (Approximately 4 inches) |
| King James Version | hin - [Exodus 29:40] And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. (Approximately 4 quarts or 1/6 bath, liquid measure) |
| King James Version | homer - [Leviticus 27:16] And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. (Approximately 8 bushels or 9.3 gallons or 10 ephahs or 1 cor, the largest dry measure) |
| King James Version | maneh - [Ezekiel 45:12] And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh . (maneh - approximately 2.5 to 3 pounds = 60 shekels, 1/16 of a talent weight.) |
| King James Version | mite - [Luke 12:59] I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite. (An mite was a small brass coin worth about 1-4 farthings or about 1-8 cents) |
| King James Version | omer - [Exodus 16:16] This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents. (An omer was about 1/10 ephah B34) |
| King James Version | penny - [Luke 24:20} Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Caesar's. (A penny was a silver coin and it was the daily pay of a Roman soldier.) |
| King James Version | piece of silver - [I Samuel 2:36} And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread. (Not necessarily a coin, but possibly a small sum or fragment.) |
| King James Version | shekel of brass - [Exodus 38:29] And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels . (about 0.5 ounces) |
| King James Version | shekel of gold - [Genesis 24:22] And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; (about 0.5 ounces) |
| King James Version | shekel of iron - [I Samuel 17:7] And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron : and one bearing a shield went before him. (about 0.5 ounces) |
| King James Version | shekel of silver - [Genesis 23:1] My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver ; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead. (about 0.5 ounces) |
| King James Version | talent - [Exodus 25:39] Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. [Exodus 38:27] And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket. (In the Old Testament, in general, a talent of gold, which may have been as much as 200 pounds, was double the weight of a talent of silver.) |
| King James Version | talent - [Matthew 5:26] And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents . (In New Testament times, a talent of silver weighed about 100 pounds and a talent of gold weighed about 200 pounds. It conveys a measure of weight more than just a monetary value.) |
| King James Version | tenth deal - [Exodus 29:40] And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering. (Approximately one omer or about 1/2 gallon, dry measure) |